Traumatic experiences during infancy and childhood can leave a lasting imprint on an individual’s health. New research ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Neuroscientists have set up computer frameworks that can help model individual brain dynamics. The complexity of the human brain -- 86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections -- ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers investigate chromatin conformational and epigenomic reorganization during the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HPC). The ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever suggested. A wave of new research is revealing hidden layers in the brain’s ...

In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining cognitive health is more important than ever. As we age, it’s common to experience memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, and a general decline in mental ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

The complexity of the human brain – 86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections – enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and the ...